bart416 wrote:Yeah, and if your smart you can let php tell the shell what to do.
Causing it to have quite some controll over your computer.
Then it's still a PHP script, that contains calls to the shell interpreter. Every programming language (or standard library, in the case of C/C++) has that feature. In C/C++ it's called system(), in Basic it's called SHELL and in TCL it's called exec. =)
It's still a PHP expression that calls the shell interpreter or sends signals to the parent process. And it's still a TCL script that calls the shell or raises signals. That doesn't make it a shell script, even not a PHP script that includes executable shell commands, because it doesn't. If it had, then the script had to be executed by a mixture of PHP interpreter and the shell.
